chapter 14
14 – Is it a dream?
I was dazed by the unexpected appearance, then hurriedly grabbed my weapon and ran out.
Even if I were to ride the returner bus, wouldn’t someone have to pave the way for the bus to go?
Something like cooking, preparing for camping.
Anyway, it was not very welcome to see the number of people reduced like this.
‘Then I have to stop it.’
A keen sense immediately swept over the fighting men.
The number is about ten.
Because there weren’t that many of them, it was easy to spot the two fighting the most fiercely.
One is a beautiful woman with stern-looking eyes, a body that doesn’t look like it, and a long ponytail that gently sways with an impressive spear.
The other one is a large man in his thirties – balding – with a blunt weapon.
Those two are probably the heart of the battle, so taking that one down will calm things down quickly.
After making that decision, I immediately applied the mana sim method.
The mana flowed from the heart flows along a pre-cooked path and spreads the mana throughout the body.
The mana that soon began to circulate throughout the body fluctuated as if it were ready to move at any time.
A level of reassurance that is different from before when sloppily attracting and using mana.
“Huh.”
I kicked the ground feeling a strange sense of exhilaration.
When they approached the two, it was just the moment when their weapons were about to collide.
In between a man striking a blunt weapon in the air and a woman trying to block it with a spear.
I intervened there, hung the sword held in reverse, and lowered it down on the spearhead, and held out my shield obliquely toward the blunt weapon.
– Kagagak!
A blunt weapon that misses while scratching the shield with a fairly decent sound, as if the power it contained was unusual.
“Huh!”
Unlike the woman who doesn’t rebel, the man attacked aggressively, so he had no choice but to hold out his shield again.
The man tried to blow me away with his shield, but with the power of his charge.
“I–kik!”
Unfortunately, the power I put into the shield was stronger.
Watching the man wriggling after being hit by the shield that didn’t shake at all, he stomped his foot once.
At the same time, let’s push some of the mana that was circulating through the legs into the legs.
– Goo-!
I kicked the ground and it made a loud sound like a drum being beaten.
“Hmm.”
This is an application of the experience of leveling the ground.
It’s pretty good.
Soon, people who were attracted by the sound began to look at me one by one.
The fighting stopped gradually.
“What….”
“Huh…”
Instead of the sound of weapons clashing, I started to hear astonishment.
It’s a little bit like I’m acting like a monster.
‘But what should I say now?’
I only thought of stopping the fight, but I have nothing decided after that.
First of all….
‘Everyone, I don’t know why, but we shouldn’t kill each other like this.’
‘Whether we like it or not, we have to climb the tower together.’
‘Let’s all lay down our weapons and make peace.’
I remembered what I had to say urgently.
Because of my introverted personality, it took a lot of effort to organize things.
I tried to connect the sentences by shortening them somehow.
“If you don’t want to die, drop your weapon.”
A sentence with a slightly different feel came out.
… Was the regressor infected because he was next to Han Seo-yeon?
Fortunately, it worked.
Because after a few of the frightened people laid down their weapons, gradually they all laid down their weapons.
… Yes, as long as the results are good.
Since I was rationalizing like that, I suddenly felt resentful of Han Seo-yeon, the original regressor.
So I looked at what he was doing.
She was nodding her head approvingly in exactly the same place as the first time.
“Whoa…”
… Okay. What do i expect
Please do well on the top.
Then what should I do with these new recruits who only care about me?
It was a little annoying, but thankfully, T.O.P stepped up and solved that part.
[Welcome to the waiting room!]
The waiting room descriptions we heard from Gabriel.
The waiting room was created for relaxation.
There are various facilities for him.
You can return to the waiting room at a certain point.
Beginning to explain such things.
Thanks to that, the eyes fell one by one from this side.
I took advantage of that opportunity and used the perk on the woman I was fighting with earlier.
[Plunder (B+) is activated. Please select a loot target.]
[Target – Seonhwa Lee─]
And then I canceled right away.
Even though it was a very short moment, Seonhwa Lee flinched as if she could feel her stats going down.
I have already confirmed through the experiment with Han Seo-yeon that the object of plunder cannot know that it is being plundered.
I won’t get caught.
Anyway, her name is Seonhwa Lee.
I checked the same way and the man’s name was Kang Dae-san.
“Lee Seon-hwa and Kang Dae-san, right?”
“…That’s right.”
“…No, that’s right.”
The two get flustered when I call their names.
I feel like I would be embarrassed.
“Are you two the leaders of each pack?”
“For now, yes.”
“It’s lacking a lot…But that’s right.”
Okay.
As expected, they were important people.
Thanks to that, it seemed to make things easier.
Because it would be much more comfortable and easier to control two people than to lead many people.
“Each of you lead your own people and follow me.”
“Okay.”
“Yes.”
It was fortunate that the name being called was quite impressive.
Maybe he’s mistaken for an administrator like Gabriel.
[You can check the detailed description of the obtained equipment at the appraisal center.]
With the still continuing explanation of the tower pushed into the corner of our vision, we headed for the hotel.
‘Seeing that Han Seo-yeon headed to the hotel at first, she probably had to go to the hotel.’
On the way there, looking around the waiting room, I felt that something had changed.
The waiting room before people arrived was a bit like a ghost town.
Now that lights are on everywhere and you can hear some noise, it feels a bit like a city now.
Perhaps this is a normal waiting room.
“Hmm.”
[Please move to the central hotel!]
As expected, after the explanation to come to the hotel, the notification no longer appeared.
We were expecting him and we were already in front of the hotel.
[I will assign a room from now on.]
As soon as I entered the hotel, a new notice came to my mind.
‘I can finally sleep in bed.’
Unlike when I entered the hotel before, the lights were brighter and the hotel system was working, such as check-in.
… There were still no people.
It must be some kind of magic that allows the pen to do its own thing.
[First of all, you can use the VIP room on the top floor from 1st to 5th with excellent grades in the trials.]
While thinking that, I heard another interesting story.
Did you set your own score for the ordeal?
It seems that the room to be used is different depending on the rank.
The personnel arrangement has become a little fun.
Of course, the 1st to 3rd places were three early graduates including me, and the other two seats were Lee Seonhwa and Kang Daesan.
It was structured like an executive meeting.
Well, it’s perfect to talk about secrets.
[Please board the elevator first.]
After that, according to the guidance, the elevator with the five of us departed upward.
Amid that suffocating silence, I opened my mouth.
“Two people?”
“Yes?”
“…What is it?”
Because it shouldn’t happen in the waiting room.
“Please refrain from fighting until you enter the tower.”
“…Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”
Lee Seon-hwa said that he knew at once that he didn’t like fighting.
“This side suffered the damage, so why should I put up with it?”
Kang Dae-san growled and protested.
“Avoid?”
“Kuh, that’s—”
I heard the situation was funny.
In the ordeal, someone stole the fruits collected by the people on the Gangdae Mountain side.
On the last day, it was completely wiped out.
I put up with it when it was a small amount, but when the situation turned out to be that way, I finally burst into anger and became the situation I had before.
I understand.
From the standpoint of conducting the tutorial, the fruit is literally the lifeline, so you have no choice but to react sensitively.
‘Besides, if it’s a sweet fruit, it also raises your stats.’
“We didn’t steal.”
“Oh my gosh—”
However, Seonhwa Lee’s position seemed a little different.
I can’t say anything because I’m neither a judge nor a detective.
A cursory glance reveals that this is not a situation that can be solved in a good way.
I think it will be difficult to reconcile the two from the point of knife fighting in the first place.
Catch only the culprit and solve the case!
How nice it would be if it went like this.
Unfortunately, neither I nor the Regressor have such abilities, so another method was needed.
At that time, a new notice appeared as if whispering to me, who was struggling.
[Room assignment has ended. A day later, a portal to the first floor opens.]
… Haru.
“Looking at it, I have to enter the tower in one day anyway. Let’s do this.”
“How do you mean?”
“Did you hear in the explanation earlier that you can return to the waiting room at a certain point?”
“…That’s right.”
Kang Dae-san frowns as if it is difficult to grasp my intentions.
“Let’s solve it then. When we come back to the waiting room.”
“…How can I solve it?”
“Well, you can continue fighting.”
Looking at the situation, if they didn’t reconcile, in the end one of them would have to die.
Even if you forcefully reconcile them, you are carrying a time bomb with you.
“Or it could end peacefully with the surrender of the culprit who changed his mind.”
So, I created a grace period until I came back to the waiting room.
So that we can find other solutions in the meantime.
The best-case scenario is that the two groups miraculously reconcile.
That must be really hard.
The odds are that someone talented will upset the balance of power.
Those who are talented enough to turn the game upside down will be useful in the future.
You’ll have to figure it out after all.
No matter what happens, there’s a good chance things will be better than fighting right away.
“…Are you trying to set some time and pressure?”
However, it seems that Kang Dae-san felt that the plan was different from my intention.
I was trying to say something to him—.
“I just want to climb the tower properly.”
Looking at Kang Dae-san’s shocked expression, I thought it would be useless, so I quit.
The last words put an end to the conversation.
– Ding!
Just then, the elevator arrived at the top floor.
As if running away, Kang Dae-san turned the key in her door and entered.
Lee Seon-hwa, who greeted cautiously, hurriedly entered the room.
… The atmosphere is very awkward.
“Ha ha.”
From the beginning, they dragged things that they wished they could solve on their own to the waiting room and made things like this.
I’d rather push them away if one of them was outright bad guys.
It seems that they are the ones who protect what they have to protect.
Whew.
I put my frustration aside and talked to the two who were now friendly.
“Let’s all rest. Oh, are you going to train today?”
“No. Take a good rest today.”
“Oh.”
Unexpectedly, Seoyeon Han took a vacation.
She said quietly, not trying to show that she was pleased.
“Do you learn runes later?”
“Runes…you can take it slow, I’ve said it before, but it’s not that good.”
“Once I got it.”
I must have taken a day off.
I really need to get some sleep today.
“Brother, I’ll go in too.”
“Okay, see you later.”
I finally said goodbye to Seol-i and entered the room.
The room seemed to be quite luxurious, though.
In my eyes, only the bed came in.
I fell asleep as soon as I lay down on the bed, as if my thirst for bed was considerable.
When I open my eyes.
In front of me was Han Seo-yeon wearing full body tights.
… What.
Is this a dream?